Passing keypress messages to other applications

[Ken Ray]

Bruce,

You can communicate between MetaCard and Flash over sockets. Set up a
port that both apps will communicate on and then send from MC, and
receive in Flash. Note that Flash expects that last character of any
received data to be numToChar(0), so you'll have to append that. 

Then, they can write a custom handler for their flash app that responds
to your MC "commands" and triggers the Flash front end.

If you need more assistance, contact me offlist and I'll help as best I
can.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Newendorp Bruce C
> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 3:59 PM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Passing keypress messages to other applications
> 
> 
> I am using MetaCard with an external dll to monitor the 
> status of the inputs of a National Instruments data 
> acquisition card.  Normally I use these inputs to connect 
> physical prototype controls to the MetaCard simulations of 
> display screens I create.  A different group in our 
> organization has started using Flash as a simulation tool 
> however they do not have an easy way to connect the physical 
> controls.  (I suggested they start using MetaCard but they 
> wanted to continue with the known path...) The Flash 
> simulation can react to keypresses so I would like to create 
> a MetaCard application that gets the physical control inputs 
> through the data acquisition card, converts the control 
> inputs to keyboard messages and then passes them to the Flash 
> simulation which will be running in the active window.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this in the Windows 2000 environment?
> 
> Bruce
> 
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